Design and Craft

Collection + Market Expert

Based in Los Angeles, Meaghan Roddy has over two decades of experience working in the modern and contemporary design and decorative arts market and helping private collectors and institutions build their collections. In 2023, she established an independent advisory to provide consulting and curatorial services for private clients, institutions and galleries with particular focus on 20th and 21st century design, decorative arts and craft-based media.

Meaghan has spoken frequently on the topic of design and craft on the secondary market for organizations including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show, Design Miami/, and the Appraisers Society of America. Among the publications Meaghan has been consulted for are Architectural Digest, The Wall Street Journal, The Art Newspaper, and The Financial Times.

Recent curatorial projects include Apex, a multi-generational contemporary fiber art show for Volume Gallery, Chicago (2024), and Implicit Explicit, a show of contemporary artists working in materials-led processes, for Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles (2024), which was selected as an Artforum Critics’ Pick. She was co-curator and co-author of The Good Making of Good Things: Craft Horizons Magazine 1941-1979, which traveled nationally from 2017-2019.

Meaghan is the President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Craft, where she has served since 2021, and a member of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Decorative Arts and Design Acquisitions Committee since 2018.